Headlines to heed

"Always great to see Super PAC money just tossed into a dumpster fire," tweets Bloomberg's Mark Gongloff of the bizarre political attack ad on Marco Rubio entitled simply "Boots" (at roughly 7,000+ shares at the mo)."The Rubio boots story is a distillation of everything people hate about politics. Anyway, here's Jeb's super PAC," MSNBC's Benjy Sarlin prefaces the video. "$100 million and you end up with this? What's the budget version?" asks Daily Beast's David Freedlander. Which prompts Michael Gold with the New York Times to ask, "doesn't this just prove how Jeb! and his people think it's 2004 or 2008?" And then NBC's Jake Heller calls our attention to something even more ridiculous: "Here's the thing. People are making crazy amounts of money to make ads like this." Also, "The dancer @r2rusa hired to perform in boots for this is too tall to be Marco," protests Tierney Sneed with Talking Points Memo. Well spotted there.

"Tronc, 2016-2016" So reads a micro-obituary written by Nieman Lab's Joshua Benton in response to the weekend's biggest media story: The scoop from Politico's Ken Doctor that Gannett, the nation's second-largest newspaper company ...

"The Onion on the Great Fall of China: Shoddy Chinese-Made Stock Market Collapses," tweets journalist Louisa Lim, sharing a link that, while a parody, still manages to tie together the current Chinese market crisis, ...